In today’s world and economic climate, creating new, relevant art is often a struggle. Beautiful, poetic music builds community, but funding is a challenge and the music industry is not the source of commercial abundance and risk-taking that it once was. This is especially true in opera, where most existing institutions focus on works of

If you don’t yet know the story (or music) of Viva’s Holiday: An Opera in One Act, you can learn all about it – including some of the wonderful reviews of the premiere – on our Viva’s Holiday page. It’s an opera for our time and place, a love-song to the Portland underground and to